IBM won a tactical victory Friday in a legal battle with SCO Group when a judge ordered SCO to show within 30 days the Linux software to which it believes it has rights and to point out where it believes IBM is infringing.

SCO's entire legal strategy rested on the slender hope that they would be able to find a judge who could be dazed, confused and befuddled as easily the press. The judges ruling puts Darl & Co. on notice that they can't go on spreading FUD (and pumping thier stock) without being specific as to what they claim IBM misappropriated.